by Andrew Samuels | May 19, 2012 | Commentary |
Concerned about Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin “renounc[ing] his U.S. citizenship just in time to avoid a large tax payment” on gains from Facebook’s impending IPO, Senators Chuck Schumer and Bob Casey have proposed legislation that would...
by nickdm | May 4, 2012 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News |
Sergey Aleynikov, a former programmer for Goldman Sachs, recently became a free man. His conviction was overturned by the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals after serving a year of his original eight year prison sentence. Aleynikov’s crime? He downloaded the highly...
by lacealex | May 3, 2012 | Commentary |
Michael Gross writes in this month’s Vanity Fair about an internet treaty conference to be held in Dubai later this year. The International Telecommunications Union, about which I’ve blogged in the past, will attempt to forge some sort of consensus...
by marobo | May 2, 2012 | Commentary |
According to the government in the State of Washington, “Human trafficking is the fastest growing criminal industry in the world today.” In response to this crime, the Washington State website against trafficking boasts that the state has passed the “most stringent...
by josephcl | May 1, 2012 | Commentary, Legal/Tech News, Technology |
It is no secret that the cost of doing business in the United States is higher as a result of disclosure obligations and liability threats that stem from public company status. Accordingly, the decision about pursuing an initial public offering is one that companies...
by prewittm | Apr 30, 2012 | Commentary |
Judge Frank Easterbrook and Professor Lawrence Lessig had a famous exchange in the late 1990s regarding cyberspace law. Easterbrook argued that scholars and judges ought not waste energy developing a body of law specific to cyberspace. Such law would be as parochial...